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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
Horace Gap.--Jefferson Co.

We had the pleasure last week of
meeting Mr.. d. II. Dodd, Of Berkeley
County, who was travelling in this
vicinity canyassing for the sale of fer
tilizers.
Mr.. G. M. Shaffer and daughter.
Miss Maria, of Martinsburg, and Miss
Ella Gerber, of Hanover. Pa, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob V. Ev-
ans, one day last week.
Miss Emma Atkinson, of Md, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. DIR. Logic.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Leech, and two
children, of Mingo Junction, Ohio,
are visiting Mrs. LIS parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel A. J. Morningstar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Triggs, of Three
Runs, were visitors at Mr.. John I'll.
Wageley's last Sunday.
We notice that Ashy, Brother SIX y
and Daniel, are still aspirants for the
smiles of q certain young lady at Lee.
town, by way of engagement will say
boys try your level best. and hurra
for the one who wins in the end.
The Trustees have made the selec-
ton of teachers for the public schools
in LeetoWn sub-district, reappointing
all of the teachers employed last year
viz: George HI. Ramsburg, j. M
johnson and III. G. Evans. The schools
will open Sept. 9TH.
/ understand that Miss Daisy Yam.
tbs, of Harpel's Ferry, has been en-
gagged for the Kearneysville school.
Master Charles Krantz, of Balti
more, who has been spending the
summer with his uncle, Mr., James l.
Roberts, has been quite sick for sew
eral days, suffering from an attack Of
malarial character, but is now con
valesclng.
Agnes, a little daughter of Mr.. Noaf
Huff, is also i'll with malaria, at the
home of her grandfather, Mr.. Harri
son Huff.
Mr.. Geo. w. Siford has been quite
ill for several days, but is now inn
proving.
Mr.. Baker drew the water off his
mill-pond, last Monday, for the pur
pose of putting fence across a por,
ton of the pond. On of the lowering
of the water was the capture of 40(
fish, two eels and four large turtles
The first were mostly" suckers" anG
some of them quite large. A bushe
or two of the finny fellows that were
not wanted, were returned to theil
native element.
Aug. Oath, 1887. TEMPLAR
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION.

BERKELEY SPRINGS, August "a
The following named gentlemen
were elected as the officers of the
West Virginia Press Association
for the ensuing year: A. B. Clark,
President; John Thornhill, Vice
President; George Bastable, Cor.
responding Secretary; E. G. Smith,
Recording Secretary VIM. o. Daw-
son, Treasurer, Geo. Washington
Tippet was chosen as orator for the
next year. w. HI. Barbee was select
ed as the poet, and Rev. j. O.
Thompson as historian. At the
grand wineless banquet at the
Berkeley Springs Hotel, Hon. Bev.
erly II. Tucker presided as toast
master; Justice Harlan of the U. S.
Supreme Court. was also an honor.
ed guest.
The following resolution was
passed today: "Any personal at.
tack, scandalous or vituperative in
its nature, made by one editor upon
another through the medium of
his paper, should be deprecated and
such offence may be reported to the
Executive Committee, who are here.
by empowered in their discretion to
notify the members of the Associa.
ton to drop such offenders from
their exchange list"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

The narrow escape of Miles Will
son, of Norfolk, who was thrice plac
ed on trial on the charge of murder
ing his father-in-law, and the subse
quent discovery that the coroner's
jury was mistaken, the deceased
having died a natural death, should
be a warning to the advocates OF
lynch law not to be so hasty in de.
Gliding on mans guilt. The &C
cused was believed to have commit.
ted the deed, and but for the inter
vention of the court might now be
filling felon's grave. 1t now turns
out that the coroner's jury based
their verdict on hearsay, as there
are no marks on the dead man indi
eating foul play. All this time the
accused has been in prison and an.
der the ban of public opinion.
What reparation can be made him
for the suffering he has undergone,
not to speak of the time and money
he has lost? No moneyej consider
alton Will compensate him. He is a
victim of the inexcusable careless
ness or laziness of the twelve men
who failed to do their duty. 1t is a
pity that they cannot be severely
punished,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
Hawthorne and His Rooxa,

But find, as the years pass by, that
these are not the books in my library
whose covers are the looSest and whose
leaves are the most dog cared. But there
are books that draw me as fresh water
draws a thirsty man; return to them
again and again; cannot weary Of them,
because a part of my own life is lived
through them; my blood circulates in
them; every day I discover in them a
new pleasure, as do in each new day.
They do for me that which nothing else
can do; they are not perfect, but to me
they are more winning than perfection.
have many wants, many deficiencies,
many moods; and my favorite books are
those which suit my moods, remedy my
deficiencies and supply my wants. I
know when need this volume, or that,
or the other. Every man at 40 is either
a fool or physician; and, at 90, every
man who is not fool has found out with
what medicines to treat the varying all
ments of his literary constitution; and he
keeps the medicines on his nearest book
shef.-Julian Hawthorne in The Epoch.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
PRIVATE SALE
OF A DESIRABLE AND
VALUABLE FARM J!

The undersigned, in behalf of the heirs
OF John G. Small, deceased, offers at pri-
vate sale that valuable farm located on
the Martinsburg and Williamsport pike,
about 4 miles from Martinsburg, consist
ing OF 1876 acres of valuable farming
land, mostly limestone. about 25 acres Of
it good timber. There is on it comfort
able dwelling house, Switzer barn, a
never failing well, cisterns, smoke
house, carriage house, chicken house
and spring house, also orchard of excel
lent fruit. also spring on the eastern
side Of the farm and running water three
fourths of the year. About fifty acres
now well set in grass. This, from loca-
ton. character of soil and buildings is
one of the most desirable farms in the
Shenandoah Valley.
TERMS OF SALE.-One-third cash.
remainder in two equal payments at
one and two years, with interest, and to
be secured by lien on the promises
Call on or address.
JOHN II. SMALL,
Bedington, Berkeley Co.
West Virginia.
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FARMERS CHANCE.
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TAKE YOUR CHOICE,

CINCINNATI, Aug. ga DIES.
patch from Hinton, West Virginia.
to-day, brings the story from Nc
Dowell County there is down again
with q dreadful disease, that be.
comes epidemic after every severe
drouth, and that 200 have died in
consequence during tie last four
weeks; that even now, at Dead
Horse Cove, 100 persons are down
and thirty have died, and that PEG.
pie have suspended all business and
are devoting themselves wholly to
caring for the sick and burying the
dead.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

Michael Mularkey was shot and
dangerously wounded in an ARRAY in
Wheeling, w. Va.
Three ladies and four children
were drowned by the upseting of
boat on the st. Lawrence river.
The waters of the Schuylkill have
been so poisoned by mine refuse
that fish are dying by thousands.
Mrs. Sarah Jackson, wife of An.
drew Jackson, Jr., and mistress Of
the White House during President
Jackson's second term, died in Tenn
esseeo
Fifteen immigrants were injured
and the engineer and his fireman
killed, of the immigrant train which
left Baltimore Tuesday, and was
wrecked near Wheeling, w. Va.
Sixteen hundred stoves and the
factory of the Martins Ferry Stove
Works, in that town, were destroy
ed by fire. Loss $4,000; insurance
S37, 900.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

Pittsburg has young and earn
est minister who gathered material
for his sermons by visits to the
slums and brothels of the city. The
sermons were startling to the chris
tan innocence, charity and piety OF
his church, and they condemned him
as Christ was for going among
sinners! Some kind of sins are
angly" and some are "nice.u
Christianity is a beautiful institu.
ton and has o warm heart for the
9beautiful " of its kind; but for the
poor despairing, and the "ugly" out.
casts, from everything that is "nice,"
it has nothing but "moral shocks y
and religious fits of repulsion. This
same "ugliness is done up in
"nice" style by many of those
toucby followers OF Christ under
cover of social and religious shadows,
and the only shocking" or " start.
ling" perceptions are those felt by
the invasion of secrecy or the re.
morse of EXPOSURE.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
THE PRESIDENTS SUBSTITUTE.

BATH, N. Y, Aug. 19.-George
Brinski, the Pole, who went to the
front as President Cleveland's sub.
stltute during the war, died tonight
in the Soldiers Home here. He
had long been suffering from con.
sumption, and his condition had
been critical for several days, but
his death was sudden at the last.
Poor, feeble and neglected, up to
a few weeks ago he had been an
inmate of the almshouse of this
county. He died declaring that the
president had promised to help him,
but never did anything for him, not
even towards obtaining a pension
and $3.50 and death in the poor.
house is all the old soldier ever got
for serving his country and its Presi-
dent.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

Wheeling had a big time this week,
in the Reunion of the Army of
West Virginia. The city put on her
best holiday attire, and treated her
soldier-guests right handsomely.
Distance prevented large attend
ance from this end of the State.
Camp.life, with its bareback fare,
dress parades, and campfire stories,
carried the soldiers of both sides
back oyer many grass. grown field
and weary tramp, where hand in
hand and mind in mind, by-gone
memories warmed their hearts in
lasting friendship and love. 1t is
good for the soldiers of every state
and every country to meet together !;
and for the sons of soldiers, that
knowing each other better in peace
they'll understand each other bet
ter in war; and standing united, no
cause can divide them, no enemy
defeat them. The Intelligencer con-
tributed largely to the reunion sue
cess.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

J. B. Hersman, who has long been
an employee at the Insane Asylum,
in two column article in regard to
the immortality of the institution,
says:
az ana 80 years old and l never
voted any but the Democratic ticket.
If there is a simon.pure, straight ont
partisan Democrat in the State,
those who know me will say that
am that kind, and | want to repeat
what / said to DR.. Manown that Die
retention of DR.. Bland aoill be a load
too heavy for the democracy to carry
IN 1888, and the State toiH be handed
oUer to the Republicans IN the aerI
campaign"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

Tom Voolfolk, the Georgia mon
ster who murdered his father, step.
mother and five brothers and sisters
in order to obtain possession of the
entire estate of his father, has made
confession in which he attempts to
shield himself by intimatlng that he
had accomplices. Already a plea of
is being urged in his be-
half, but only reasonable hypothesis
on which his awful crime can be ex-
planned is that he is one of those
abnormal creatures occasionally
found who are destitute Of moral
sensibility and have some special
feature of their nature developed be.
yond proper bounds. Woolfold is a
beast with enough humanity about
him to love money.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
CRIMINAL CHEAPNESS DEAR TO
LIFE.

A cheap system of railroadiDg, OF
any other life.carrying and labor-em.
ploying public work, is dear in the
end. dear to life and property. Re-
peated railroad accidents and mine
disasters have caused thousands of
deaths and injuries, that could have
been avoided by closer inspection,
better equipment, more and better
paid labor and the best machinery
and appliances. A false economy
would save labor and expense by
system of "cheapness," and pay
double the amount in damages and
repairs, with no estimate of the loss
of life and limb. Even those losses
are made up again by cutting down
labor and wages to make up the
dividends. Every effort is made to
keep up a corporations stock, but
its public safety precautions are left
to lapse far below par. Bad brakes,
worse facilities, insufficiency of help,
worn out and run down rolling stock,
carelessness and Indifference and a
trusting to blind luck in general,
pile up horrible range of human
sacrifice. We want more stringent
laws, and if the states are afraid to
make or enforce them, it is time for
the general government to step IN
and take charge of the management
of all public highways of business
and travel. s..
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

Congressman Gibson and Judge
McGinnis, Of the Cabell County
Court. have had some personal spar
ring, and the Judge fined the Con-
gresham $50 and sentenced him to
Jail for 10 days. Like in the Riddle
berger-Newman trouble, there is no
honor nor credit to either Judge or
Congressman, and certainly none to
the States they represent; and these
examples, from so high source, are
anything but encouraging to the
lesser professions and humber pur.
suits of life, in which men have to
deal with each other.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
PARTY SLAVERY.

We hear great deal about the
Importance of party organization
or about the usages which are ne
cessary for party discipline, but we
hear very little about sound Demo
cratic principles. A politician re
Gently said to us,-"the people will
not support any candidate who vic
lated a usage of the party On the
same day an intelligent farmer said
to u.s." the rank and file of voters
care nothing for party discipline
but they do care a great deal fol
party principle; and if the election
of a candidate meant the enforce
ment Of the principles professed by
the party, there would be no occa
sion for so much noise about party
usage, party organization, and
party discipline West Va. Demo
crdt.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
A Tramp,s rathetic Plea.

81 neglected to take my annual bath
last summer, and am suffering now for
my carelessness. 1 kept putting it off
until the weather became too cold. This
shows you, ma'an, the evil of procras-
tination. And let me add that If you
have it in your mind to give poor
tramp small drop of something to keep
him warm, now is the time to do it. Do
not be like me, ma'aml Do not pro-
crastinate and afterward carry around
with you a chestful Of remorse and re-
greet. Be warned, madam, by one who
repents at the eleventh hour
This admonition was too strong for the
lady to Withstand, and she Immediately
went into the house and brought the
tramp out cup of weak tea, steaming
hot.-Boston Courier.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

Two heavy engines in the p. r
w. yards at Philadelphia collided,
the jar throwing open the throttle oil
one engine, which started through
the city at the rate of a mile a min
ute; colliding with another engine,
the same thing happened, and botb
engines ran through a switch and
shot down a thirty.fOot embank
ment, both wrecked and embedded
in the ground. The engineers were
thrown out in the first collision and
fatally injured.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

We ask the capital and enterprise
of Martinsburg to look at the fact that
they make little effort to attract any.
thing public or private to Martins
burg. Wheeling, Parkersburg, and
other towns, 60 to some trouble and
expense to induce industries to 10.
cate and have organizations select
them as places to hold their annual
meetings. Every town of any size
in the state bid for the location
of the new Methodist College and
the new state asylum, and Martins.
burg with every inducement and ad-
vantage made no effort to have even
her claims represented. The SOL
diers' Reunion this week drew
thousands Of people to Wheeling,
leading men in public life, and the
boom" in reputation and distinc-
ton is worth thousands to that city.
The Intelligencer went to great
trouble and expense to work up the
reunion against the chronic grumb-
ling and petty opposition lurking
around in every town, and its
columns are not only well filled with
news In return, but brimful of pay
ing business. There is not only an
element in Martinsburg that opposes
what ever it can't dictate to and
control for self.interest, but there is
also Il public "sponging element
that would live off Off the peoples en-.
terprise and liberality at every
chance opportunity. Criticism and
fault-finding kill any proposition
looking to the good of the town, and
it is only equal in its discouraging
influence to the short.sightedness
that will not risk a dollar unless ten
are returned. Yet these are the
elements that crowd "self" to the
front where there is no work or risk,
and some prospect for little cheap
show off. A Board of Trade, or an
Improvement Association, compos.
ed of our most popular and substan.
tlal citizens, could do much for the
material interests of Martinsburg.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

In New York city Mrs. Melvina w
Payne, aged sixty years, and hel
daughter, Miss Anna NJ, aged
thirty five, took laudanum, severed
the veins in their arms and died.
They left notes stating that they
we're both insane, dreaded the mad.
house, and therefore died. The
notes, which also stated that they
had in bank enough money to bury
them, were addressed to Miss I'll. a.
Weed, the daughter of the late
Thurlow Weed.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Know N0things, or new
American party, will bold a conyen-
ton in Philadelphia September I6.
Floods have nearly destroyed the
rice crop in South Carolina and
there will be no work for the negro
hands until January.
A man cut West eloped with a
girl to spite her father. There are
lots of papas in tais section who
would enjoy this sort of revenge.
During a terrific storm at Repub-
lican City, Neb., buildings we're
blown down, houses unroofed and
many persons more or less injured.
Charles Hayght shot and killed
his wife at Hammondsport, N. Y,
and then killed himself. The
couple leave an infant only few
months old.
The Inman steamer City of Mon
treal was burned at sea August 18th.
All of her passengers, with the ex-
ception of thirteen, have arrived at
Queenstown.
One evening recently a tall pine
tree in front of a Western farmers
dwelling was struck, killing nineteen
hogs, ten shotes, four pigs and five
sows and crippled two. Not bruls-
ed spot could be seen on any of
them.
A Circuit Judge in Ohio reversed
the decision of a local justice, and
the latter is now being sued for false
Imprisonment. If magistrates are
compelled to pay for their mistakes,
the position will be "a very undesira-
BILE, not to say expensive, one.
One of the most horrible duels-if
duel it can be called-ever recorded
was fought in Mexico recently with
tarantulas for weapons. Instead of
trying to STAY each other, the con.
testants were locked in room with
100 of the spiders and neither was
to leave until all of them were kill.
ed. When the doors were opened
both men were dead.
ALLENTOWN, Pa, August 49,
Another slight fall of snow was no.
ticed here yesterday morning at 7
o'clock similar to the fall on Tues
day morning.
SIsTERsvILLe, W. Va, August s.
There is something of sensation
in this county over the fact that
Hiram Underwood, one of the county
commissioners. is alleged to have
criminally assaulted one of his
nieces. He has had a preliminary
hearing before Justice of the
Peace. Opinions are divided as to
his guilt.
j. Z. Simms, belonging to one of
the most respectable families of the
state, forged school orders on Mason
county for 81 800, which he had dis
counted for anything he could get.
On being arraigned before Putnam
County Court, he confessed his
crime, making no defense whatever,
and was sentenced to two years in
the penltentiary.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, August
22.-On the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad last night two freight
trains collided about ten miles
above this city, totally demolishing
two engines and fifteen cars loaded
with merchandise. Two employees
were slightly injured by jumping.
Immediately after the collision fire
broke out, and fifteen cars with mer-
chandise were consumed. The loss
will reach $4,000.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

The trial of Van Baker, at New
Cumberland, this state, for the muir.
der of his wife and her mother, is
not without damaging charges
against justice. Public sentiment
was so bitter against him that it
cropped out before, during and after
the trial. The jury that tried him,
it is alleged, was separated on diff.
ferent occasions, and had whisky
supplied, besides other undue out
side influence. Baker may be the
guilty man, but he is not so by a
clear conviction.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27

PARKERsBURG, W. Va, August
18.--Miss Addie Lee, aged %, the
daughter of wealthy parents, resid.
ing at Guysville, a few miles from
here, was sunstruck while out walk.
ing few weeks ago and she became
violently insane. She grew worse
until she became raving maniac
and had to he locked up alone.
When she was fed it was through a
hole in the door. After suffering
for twelve days death came to her
relief last night. From grief over
her daughters misfortune her moth.
er is not expected to live
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-27
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A POINTER

Mr.. Huntington, who has accumn-
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